Alicia Keys' Digital Death Twitter AIDS Fundraiser Reaches $1M Goal

NEW YORK — Alicia Keys, Lady Gaga and other celebrities can sign back online, thanks to donations from their fans and a philanthropist.

Keys announced Monday that her charity, Keep a Child Alive, reached its $1 million fundraising goal in honor of last week's World AIDS Day.

A slew of celebrities signed off digital platforms like Twitter and Facebook last Wednesday and asked their fans to donate to the charity, which supports families affected by HIV and AIDS in Africa and India.

The celebrities could sign back online when the $1 million fundraising goal was met.

The entertainers and their fans raised $500,000, and philanthropist Stewart Rahr matched it.

Participants in the Digital Death campaign included Ryan Seacrest, Justin Timberlake, Usher and Kim Kardashian.

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Online:

http://www.aliciakeys.com

http://www.keepachildalive.org

http://www.buylife.org

Comments

[caringstd66]

10:06 PM on 12/19/2010

Alicia Keys, Lady Gaga, you did a great job.. people on the largest and most trusted STD dating and support community named Positivemate.com discuss this on their blogs and forums recently..

[Julie Spencer]

09:46 PM on 12/14/2010

I will donate if they promise to not get back online.

[climbing panda]

08:43 PM on 12/08/2010

the only reason i would never give to a scheme like this is because anyone of those self-righteous celebrities could have made that donation. if they had signed-off and guaranteed matching funds themselves i' be more motivated.

[Debbie338]

10:28 AM on 12/13/2010

Exactly right. If they wanted to, each of them could easily donate 1 million dollars instead of begging middle-class people to do it for them.

[dbesabella]

04:20 PM on 12/07/2010

It's great that BuyLife.org was able to reach their goal... But the last time I remember checking up on the campaign, the donations from people were still not that close to $500k... So I'm thinking there is a little fibbing going on. But whatever, as long as the message was made about AIDS awareness, then it's all okay. Let's just hope BuyLife was able to learn from this experience...

[purenergy]

03:42 AM on 12/07/2010

Glad to see it worked!

[Lazonia B]

08:40 PM on 12/14/2010

Unfortunately, their status did not have any influence on the donations because a billionaire donated a half-million to help accomplish the goal. Those participation celebs are so full of themselves. I am wondering...if the billionaire wouldnt have made the donation would they really have killed themselves. I am so through with celebs using their fame to raise money for charities.

[Veman]

02:30 AM on 12/07/2010

why dont these celeb a$$wipes each donate a million $ themselves?

[Dnietz]

02:04 AM on 12/07/2010

Alicia looking fiiine as always.